Saturday, May 9, 2020

Vernal hanging parrot: Stanford Law CodeX a) Linguistics, machine learning and Law, b) Online contracts, - and principles for individual data ownership? c) CodeX Blockchain Group, and blockchain for digital currencies? * * * Sri Lankan matriculating undergraduate students for this autumn who speak English, who would complete a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor's degree, which is MIT OCW-centric * * * And in what ways could WUaS add a money transfer mechanism to our Wiki You at WUaS - in all ~300 languages (in Wikidata), and for reimbursement from departments of education in all ~200 countries' main languages, but also to explore UBI experiments even?



UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #UBIexperiments to distribute #SingleCryptocurrency to all 7.5 billion people to alleviate poverty re #WikidataQitem #WikidataPin https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/vernal-hanging-parrot-stanford-law.html for jobless, beginning w speakers of 7,117 living languages @sgkmacleod > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259675871142502403?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259675038837436418?s=20




https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1259677189265485826?s=20


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UBI Universal Basic Income #UBIexperiments to distribute #SingleCryptocurrency to all 7.5 billion people to alleviate poverty re #WikidataQitem #WikidataPin https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/vernal-hanging-parrot-stanford-law.html for jobless, beginning w speakers of 7,117 living languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259599253493579777?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259598315047403520?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1259599462797766656?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1259682448989802497?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1259680294711382017?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1259683611059486721?s=20



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Dear Roland, Masha, Ludwig, and Stanford CodeX Fellows, (and Paul and Markus, presenters in the previous week),

Thanks for your great presentations at Stanfrod Law CodeX - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/06/codex-meeting-may-7th-2020/ (and the week before too - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/codex-meeting-april-30th-2020/). I didn't note down the RegTrax Stanford CodeX Fellows' emails, and couldn't find them, so could you possibly please forward this email to them, Roland? 

I'm following up with the questions I asked, or wanted to ask in email, and to network further (and regarding MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch's planned on line law schools in ~200 countries' official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - see too the 8 beginning law schools 1/3rd the way down). For example, I think Ludwig, and Paul and Markus, would have something possibly significant to explore together. (But both your 5/7/20 and your 4/30/20 presentations aren't online yet on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube video channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B ... but may be eventually).

Here are the questions I asked, or wanted to ask in email, in the CodeX Zoom text chat: 
1
Masha: 
Thank you, Masha ! If you had access to Google’s AI, and GNMT - Google Neural Machine Translation - in what ways could you develop a successful approach to the changing meaning of words over time eg your example of the way the word 'torture' has changed meaning since the 1960s? Could you easily bring your system together with GNMT or Google AI, for example, (in the Netherlands and in Dutch and English, initially)? - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)
 

For example, I searched on "How does GNMT handle the change in meaning of words over time?"
and found:
"Data from side-by-side evaluations, where human raters compare the quality of translations for a given source sentence. Scores range from 0 to 6, with 0 meaning “completely nonsense translation”, and 6 meaning “perfect translation." " - https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for-machine.html ... Would this help, Masha, in conjunction with the torture word example - and in legal, and law court, situations, in your work - and especially if you could bring your system together with GNMT?

Could you network with Google AI through the University of Groningen, or other Dutch universities?

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Ludwig: 
I wonder if principles for individual data ownership could play a role in Court Correct's (which "tells users what's in the terms and conditions and contracts that people tend to automatically accept, as well as helps users keep their contracts all in one place, and keep track of what they've signed") development, Ludwig, and per Paul's and Markus's previous weeks' presentation, and their Harvard Law JOLT paper, about which I blogged here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html. And could Markus and Paul's Prifina ("Ownership of private information") be on the horizon in the British Isles as a collaboration possibility, Ludwig? 

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Stanford CodeX Fellows: 
Thanks, and fascinating. Brainstorming-wise, how might RegTrax or Stanford Law CodeX hypothetically regulate Stanford created “Mine Pi” cryptocurrency with block chain (more about 'Mine Pi' here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/aquatic-plant-mine-pi-from-faqs-what-is.html - and - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/01/ligers-and-tiligers-and-panthera-leo-x.html), - and potentially in all ~200 countries, in their official & main languages’ legal systems (so, coming after the Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and after the international dollar)? Thanks, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) (And what role would central banks play, if a single global cryptocurrency emerges, backed by some number of central banks, and thus its blockchain?)

I wanted to see if I could infer something new related to digital currencies' blockchain ledgers, compared with these helpful characterizations of blockchain ledger, (from a few years ago, not focusing on digital currencies), with these principles - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/gold-dust-day-gecko-blockchain-ledger.html - and using a Vermont house as an example - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/feather-stars-blockchainforeducation.html(in the 'blockchain' label in my blog). Digital currency scale questions come to mind.

And further brainstorming-wise, what would happen if such a single cryptocurrency with blockchain (like "Mine Pi" ) could be DISTRIBUTED via Universal Basic Income experiments - to alleviate poverty - TO most of all 7.5 billion people on the planet, which World University and School's law schools seek to code for, each a Wikidata Q-item # or a Wikidata Pin #. Wikidata is in Wikipedia's back end structured knowledge database, in ~300 languages, and WUaS donated ourselves to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, and received this WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki 'front end' - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - as a consequence in 2017, but they're not yet inter-operable. WUaS is planning to create wiki schools for open teaching and learning for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages, and seeks to extend coding for all 7.5 billion people on the planet as potential wiki teachers and learners. 

Regarding keeping the cryptocurrency hacking space open: How about numismatics' rare coins as an example for the ongoing hacking and creativity in the creation of digital cryptocurrencies  - as an example - even as the state, that is central banks' law here, may likely seek to regulate a single cryptocurrency with block chain, and with other law too, for many reasons but to protect their citizens especially (in my opinion - and perhaps building on the Euro, and the US dollar?)? 

Brainstorming-wise, much of this could further emerge with former president of Stanford John Hennessy, chairman of Alphabet / Google talking to Christine Lagard, president of the European Central Bank

(https://twitter.com/Lagarde/status/1258804209199316992?s=20), as well as US Federal Reserve / Treasury - and combined with Stanford and MIT for coders, for example. 


I follow too in some of these regards Neha Narula the MIT Director of the Digital Currency Initiative - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1258795026206859269?s=20 - too. She probably has the best insight into how the information technologies' aspects of this would work, re security, the myriad of other blockchains, robotics, etc. 

Please let me know your thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions.

All the best, Scott
Have blogged a bit about this here - 

https://twitter.com/WWUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

PPS
Related communications:
In LinkedIn:
Thanks for your great Stanford Law CodeX presentation yesterday, Michael Schmitz, and all! Here are some of my questions from the session:

Brainstorming-wise, how might RegTrax or Stanford Law regulate Stanford-created “Mine Pi” with block chain, - and potentially in all ~200 countries’ official main languages’ legal systems (so, coming after the Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and the international dollar)? (And what role would central banks play, if a single cryptocurrency emerges, backed by some number of central banks, and thus blockchain?) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/blockchain = #cryptocurrency #blockchain #cryptocurrencies

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6663966081146851328/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_codex-meeting-may-7th-2020-activity-6664626703966576640-7IKi
And as I messaged Paul yesterday morning in LinkedIn: 
Hello Paul, I found Ludwig Bull's presentation - the middle one - very relevant to your project. More in an email to you all. (I think it will appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube channel in a week or two). Here are some further thoughts and questions about your project as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html (with CodeX's Youtube channel too, where your presentation isn't yet posted). Regards, Scott (scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org)






Hello Paul, I found Ludwig Bull's presentation - the middle one - very relevant to your project. More in an email to you all. (I think it will appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube channel in a week or two). Here are some further thoughts and questions about your project as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html (with CodeX's Youtube channel too, where your presentation isn't yet posted). Regards, Scott (scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org)


On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:32 AM Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

Our next CodeX group meeting is today (May 7), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT via Zoom link below. Please note that this meeting is *virtual only,* and that all speakers will present remotely.

Our guests will be:

Masha Medvedeva, PhD candidate, University of Groningen. Ms. Medvedeva discusses her research, which is focused on automatic prediction of court decisions using machine learning. Her discussion uses the European Court of Human Rights as an example and demonstrates the potential and limitations of various machine learning methods.

Ludwig Bull, CEO, CourtCorrect. CourtCorrect tells users what's in the terms and conditions and contracts that people tend to automatically accept, as well as helps users keep their contracts all in one place, and keep track of what they've signed.

CodeX Fellows Michael Schmitz and Riyanka Roy Choudhury, and Reuben Youngblom, members, CodeX Blockchain Group. The group's RegTrax seeks to open avenues for communication and learning among policymakers, technologists, and academics through discussion forums and educational repositories.

See you then!

Roland

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Meeting ID: 586 446 628 
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/586446628






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Great, Rifai! (and Partha, Peter and Larry),

Thanks, - am following up currently in some of these regards too with MIT President Rafael Reif, and potentially regarding Google Sites too. 
This email was sent to MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and, as a consequence, was very glad to have a 30 minute Zoom video conference on F May 1 with the head of the MIT Office for Digital Learning ,Sanjay Sarma, with a CMU Master's degree, and UC Berkeley Ph.D. and an undergraduate degree from an IIT in India, but WUaS is still seeking a way forward with something like MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform which we can BPPE license and WASC accredit upon. This didn't emerge in conversation with Sanjay; will it emerge on some sort of open Google Platform, due to the MIT OCW's Creative Commons' 4 licensing? Well, in this email to Google's Head of Open Source, Edd Wilder-James -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/passion-flower-sword-billed-hummingbird.html - I'm exploring this further.

Further Google collaborations is what I'd wish for, for WUaS, since WUaS is already in Google for Education (this info@world... email address is in Google for Education / G Suite, for ex.) and in so many ways - see letter to Edd.

Rifai, would you like to join in on a WUaS Livestream conversation on a Monday at 10am PT, or at another more convenient time for you, since you're in Sri Lanka, about growing WUaS?

I would invite you from here
and it would stream and be recorded to WUaS's new Youtube Livestream channel -
(which I am working linking here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch).

I'd be interested too in exploring, brainstorming-wise, questions about your thoughts about how a project manager might work out of Colombo or similar, Sri Lanka. It wouldn't be like going to the Google office in Mountain View, CA, or in Sri Lanka if there is one, but hopefully much via Google software, as well as regarding WUaS's online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store, for students and learners, but eventually with on-the-ground stores ... and perhaps all also in a single realistic virtual earth for everything - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate and with avatar bots / species / individuals, and group build-able like Second Life, but realistic, not cartoonesque) - including architectural design, business development, - as well as for languages - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click - and countries too.

I just re-Tweeted your new Tweet - https://twitter.com/NVidyalaya/status/1256877509930516486?s=20 - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch. 

Regards, 
Scott




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Hi !

Good to know the progress. I prefer to be connected with WUaS in a passive manner for now, working on web related activities before moving to ground work. I can begin with localisation of content (in Sinhala), e-bookstore (I was a an admin sometime ago), genealogy including Y-DNA and mtDNA (I know my ancestry to a great extent and know to trace my distance relatives). Gradually with other tasks initially guiding on the local arena.

You can go ahead with the meeting and keep me subscribed to the minutes. The above mentioned can be done remotely. Thanks for the share.

Regards,

Rifai


 Nidahas Vidyalaya - Freedom College

 Sri Lanka

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Hello Rifai, (Partha and Peter),

Thanks again for your email - and our information sharing. And greetings in Sri Lanka. For your information, and as introductions, brainstorming-wise, Peter is in Bremen, Germany, and may head Germany World University and School, in German, with time. WUaS is seeking 500 German Abitur (the high achieving Gymnasium high school diploma in Germany) English-speaking German students this autumn, if possible. Partha knows governments in both countries. Let's leave Larry Viehland off these email threads please (per his request). In these regards, I'm curious in what ways you, Rifai, or Nidahas Vidyalaya, could find 200 high achieving Sri Lankan matriculating undergraduate students for this autumn who speak English, who would complete a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor's degree, which is MIT OCW-centric. 

Sharing at World Univ & Sch is predicated on CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare, where this Creative Commons' license allows for 1) sharing, 2) adapting, but 3) non-commercially. And when WUaS says we're developing from MIT OCW, WUaS adds these further licensing clarifications - 

a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )


- and thus gets to use the MIT name! MIT OCW in its 4 languages is a gold mine! There are approximately 2,400 undergraduate and graduate level courses in English in MIT OCW. You can find these licensing clarifications also in the WUaS MIT OpenCourseWare Daily News - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1257484405582503936?s=20 - which posts automatically. 

Brainstorming-wise, further, and regarding creating faculty positions in Sri Lanka in Sinhala at Sri Lanka WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka - and in the Sinhala language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language - WUaS will take, conceptually, a MIT OCW into MITx (on the edX platform) approach, where there are now 205 courses. So one of the questions I have, as we continue this conversation, is how you might find faculty to help translate MIT OCW into MITx in Sinhala.  

WUaS bookstores are an educational service for our students, and wiki Universitians, and may find their way on-the-ground parallelling Starbucks in Sri Lanka (including with food). 

If WUaS can get started on the edX platform for this autumn, and find ~200 Sri Lankan English speaking high achieving students (what would this high school exam be in Sri Lanka? .... it would be as if a Sri Lankan 17 year old was applying to Stanford or MIT on-the-ground in the USA), WUaS plans to seek reimbursement from departments of education in Sri Lankan provinces, or similar, and herein is partly how WUaS seeks to begin to hire Sri Lankan faculty, for example, to develop courses in Sinhala. (Also, with your Nidaha Vidyalaya's domain name, please keep in mind WUaS plans, if possible, to begin an online Sri Lanka at WUaS law school, and per - https://www.desaram.com/BlogArticles/overview-of-sri-lankas-legal-regime.php - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Sri_Lanka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_in_Sri_Lanka). 

CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World Univ & Sch is also a service, and seeks to build especially out of MIT"s Computer Science and STEM strengths - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - and in Sinhala.  And WUaS also seeks as a service to build a Sinhala language WUaS wiki community of teachers and learners on our open wikis (far beyond academics). There's much creative potential on WUaS's wiki side in Sinhala, but people may need information (Youtubes) about how to wiki teach and wiki learn, as well as ways to creating this online culture. And from this culture, may come many more high achieving and creative students - in English first, then Sinhala and Tamil + ! 

Friendly regards, 
Scott
Gene-wise, WUaS may seek to code for all 7. 5 billion people on the planet - so all 22 million people in Sri Lanka - and come into conversation with WikiTrees' mission for example, and thus take a big data approach to our matriculating students' registration / signing on / matriculation at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. 










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Hi Rifai, Partha and Peter,

World Univ & Sch will probably develop our career hiring process paralleling edX's -

"The Future of Higher Education Starts With You
We are building a software platform that brings together the best universities from all around the world to create courses for everyone, everywhere in the world.
Find a Position and Apply
We're growing fast and we need your talent, skills, and ambition" -

https://www.edx.org/careers

In addition, if possible, we'll build out WUaS on-the-ground bookstores paralleling Starbucks which is a partner with Google, and even with Google IT infrastructure, including architecture - in a realistic virtual earth ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForBookstores?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Google Earth) - and inventory, and artificial intelligence, hiring practices, etc. - with a parallel online e-bookstore aspect (a kind of dual business plan - actual-virtual, physical-digital). This would also be on the WUaS Press side of World Univ & Sch - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress.


You'll see Peter in a video here - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - and CEO of edX, Anant Agarwal (and MIT Professor of EECS) in the 2nd MIT OCW video.

Yesterday, in Google Translate, Nidahas meant discussion in Hindi, but Vidyalaya didn't have a meaning. Today it means Nidahas School in Hindi. How do you see Nidahas Vidyalaya - http://nidahasvidyalaya.edu.lk/ (interesting - https://youtu.be/eW0f_yFEED0) - meaning Freedom College? It might also be interesting to explore Sri Lanka World University and School (planned in the Sinhala languages) AND Sri Lanka Law School at WUaS (and online Medical School too) getting a Sri Lanka domain name with regards to the .edu in Nidahas Vidyalaya at some point in the future - https://twitter.com/NVidyalaya.

Where are you based in Sri Lanka? Colombo or?

And here are the beginnings of MIT in the Minecraft virtual world -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1247668302517686272?s=20 - which is on the Lego scale for actual-virtual, physical-digital developments, that WUaS seeks to further.

I'll invite you all to the WUaS News Q & A Livestream beginning in about an hour. (Partha - may I continue to include you in these emails?).

Hoping you're all doing well in the coronavirus pandemic.

Friendly greetings, Scott

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live
- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch

- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress



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W, May 13, 2020

Hi !
Yeah ! edX has been doing a better service than Coursera. I also applied for ORAP and got 5000 coupons from edX. Feel free to distribute amongst your students. I have shared them in my site. That  is an interesting concept. I was also looking into VR & AR sometime ago. 

Nidahas means Free as in Freedom and Vidyalaya means College in Sinhala. I have no plans of going for another Nidahas as the name is not appealing even though it is unique. After all we are in global world. Yes that is something we could work on. Either srilankaworlduniversity.edu.lk or even better .ac.lk reserved only for universities. Alternative is to use my domain. Medical colleges are better avoided. It will end up like SAITM university as the medical trade unions are against them. Maybe something unrelated to medical practice is fine.

I am from an immediate suburb (Nugegoda) of Colombo but within the district. Colombo tends to be commercial than residential. I will visit the links. Sure I am, hope everyone is the same.  Thanks. I was a bit busy.

Regards

Rifai



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Hi Rifai, Peter and Partha, 

Typed in 'Free College' in Google Translate, selected the Sinhala language, and got both: 

නිදහස් විද්යාලය
nidahas vidyālaya

What a lovely script. Slightly different connotation than "Freedom College" in English. 

Coupons and Promo Codes re ORAP ... as incentives to take edX courses ... Hmmm... and an inspiring realistic virtual earth for STEM classrooms ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM?src=hashtag_click ... somehow as incentives too? I don't know that students are seeking to take edX courses in the same way that students are applying to MIT and Stanford at the undergraduate level - yet. 

Will keep the .edu domain name in mind - thanks. Also, brainstorming-wise, WUaS may develop our online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care and research building out of something like Sebastian Thrun's Udacity approach: 

Introducing #UdacityAIforHealthcare Nanodegree program!
Due to the #COVID19 #pandemic, there has never been a better ti‍me to understand the impact of #AI on the #healthcare industry and to learn how you can leverage AI for patient care. Learn more https://bit.ly/3bxC8wF.

https://twitter.com/udacity/status/1260268573836132352?s=20
... which also takes, like edX, a nanodegree approach to incentives ... and perhaps as different incentives than ORAP. 

Thanks again for your email. 

Regards, Scott





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